One by one, when nobody was looking over the summer, five sets of hoops appeared on the UC Berkeley campus, as if they were dropped randomly from a spaceship.

They were put there as a one-year loan by noted sculptor Bruce Beasley, from the Class of 1962. When I heard about them I went over on BART to look for them. It takes some walking up and down the hills, and over and back, but they are all worth seeing.

The series is called “Rondo” and based on the photos above, you might be able to figure out the locations of the first four in the series. The fifth is hard to find so we will leave it a mystery.

Hint: It is in the breezeway of what some say is the ugliest building on campus. It was built the year the artist Beasley graduated. To read more, click here